So you’re invested significant resources into a self-serve IT support platform so that it can run on autopilot for the lowest value tasks, but it isn’t working. You have bought a brand new wiki/knowledge base solution like Confluence, but for whatever reason it is underutilized. The same thing happened when…
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Managing knowledge through the four stages of company growth
As companies evolve through the various stages of growth, their needs change from a knowledge management perspective as well. If you’re not modernizing your knowledge management strategy to adapt to the demands of growth, you are missing out on opportunities to improve productivity and get the most return on the…
Top 3 signs you helpdesk is ready to enable self-serve support
Your company has a very busy support helpdesk. Tickets volumes are high. Support agents are backlogged. Your team budget feels stretched. Are these signs telling you something? Maybe it’s time to open a self-service channel for your employees. It’s hard to know when the right time is to launch such…
Why self-serve support and Slack go hand-in-hand
Companies that depend on a centralized body of knowledge to propel productivity know that you can build a robust, comprehensive, validated and accurate body of knowledge to power self-serve support, but if you don’t make it easy to access where people work, it will collect dust. For this reason, knowledge…
Why knowledge management is a mission critical integration for the DevOps workflow
DevOps has captured the imagination of an entire generation of tech professionals with its irresistible allure and promises of hyper-efficiency and highly. But what is Devops exactly? We love the definition that Alessandro Diaferia shared in a recent blog and his Twitter account: Practically speaking, DevOps is a term that…
Turning your Confluence workspace into a robust self-service support tool
Confluence is a popular choice for many teams that are looking for a tool to centralize organizational documentation. Popularized by technical teams, Confluence is now finding a home in more teams including customer support and HR/People-ops. What is internal self-serve support? Internal self-serve support is when when employees can solve…
Accessing a company knowledge base while working remotely
The COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak has pushed companies from around the globe into a sudden and unexpected remote-working experiment in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. Remote work requires employees to be armed with a full stack of tools that enables them to meet their daily work goals…
Designing your support desk to maximize ticket deflection
Ticket deflection is when a customer service or IT helpdesk ticket is avoided by way of a self-serve help mechanism. This means that an employee will be able to solve their own issue without requiring the intervention of a support professional or a service ticket being created. By allowing your…
Fixing Frequently Asked Questions in Slack
A show of hands if you’ve never seen this in your Slack workspace before… Nobody? Shocking… When Slack was born, it was a watershed moment for frequently asked questions just like this. It gave them a new home and IT Managers and Support Teams rejoiced with a nice tidy new…